Commonplaces Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. — Norman Rockwell
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my… — Harry Houdini
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary… — Felix Frankfurter
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and… — Lewis Mumford
Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are… — Miguel de Unamuno
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. — Gertrude Atherton
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly… — Steve Leveen
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. — Eric Hoffer
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces,… — John Stuart Mill
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. — Arthur Conan Doyle
It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
How I waited for you! How I longed for you! he stammered. "I thought of you all the time. I saw you all the time.… — Henri Barbusse
It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by… — Alice Duer Miller
After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it… — Christopher Fry

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